Emmaus Church SC

The new year always excites us with the possibility of a fresh start and a new beginning. As we move into 2025, it’s important for us to recognize that much of what has the potential to trip us up isn’t ahead of us, but it is behind us. We hope you can join us this Sunday for a timely message on the power of forgiveness.

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This week we are getting into the theme of peace. We find talk of peace all over the first Christmas story. It’s in the messages of the prophets, it’s on the lips of the old priest, and it’s even sung about by a choir of angels. We all want peace, but what exactly is peace? This is important for us to get right because what we believe about peace will determine how we pursue it and as usual, God's...

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This Sunday marks the beginning of the Advent season. For centuries, followers of Jesus have been using the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas to reorient themselves to the bigger story we are apart of and to remember that this story has a happy ending. We are going to have an old fashion sort of Advent and spend these weeks reflecting on the four traditional themes of the season-hope, joy, peace, an...

We are probably all over the place when it comes to how we think/feel about the church. It can be the best of us and the worst of us at the same time. As messy and dysfunctional as it is and has been…the church can still be such a good and beautiful thing. This Sunday’s message is called, ISN’T SHE LOVELY and it will be an honest and hopeful celebration of this strange cultural phenomenon that we...

This Sunday we get to participate in both sacraments-baptism and communion! Sacraments offer us an opportunity to experience the grace of God in a unique and powerful way. They take the truth of the Gospel and make it very real.

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This Sunday we will look at our 3 Common Practice. It's what we call Wide-Eyed Participation. The world has plenty of spectators and too many critics. What it needs more of are people who are willing to offer more than their opinion; people who are willing to jump in and participate in what God is up to in the world. We would love for you to join us as we unpack more of what it looks like to be a...

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This Sunday we will get into our second Common Practice. It's something we call Wholehearted Living. It's all about learning to live more honestly with God, ourselves, and one another. If that sounds terrifying, and yet a bit compelling, be sure to join us.

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A fair question to ask a relatively new church is, "Why does there need to be another one?" There are currently less than 200 Starbucks in the state of South Carolina. There are more than 1,200 churches in the greater Columbia area alone. So yeah, why did we think there needed to be another one? Over the next several weeks we are going to walk through our answer to that question as we unpack the v...

Our first service in our new space!

This Sunday will be our final time of worship in The River Center before we move into our new home. We will spend some time looking back on God's faithfulness, recognizing where we are, and considering what is ahead.

This Sunday we continue our crash course on how to keep our head and guard our hearts when things get nasty with a teaching on healthy boundaries. Often the people who pull us into the fray are people we can't simply get away from. A family member who loves to start a fight at every get together, a co-worker who likes to push our buttons, or a longtime friend who has drifted toward the fringes...

We are spending our time on Sunday mornings learning how to keep our head and guard our heart when things get nasty. Often we are tempted to not talk about the divisive issues, but the reason some of these topics are so divisive is because they are really important. The best way forward for the church isn't to avoid these conversations, but to actually model what it looks like to talk about th...

This Sunday we are starting a new series called Above the Fray. The title is an idiom (saying) that means to not directly involve yourself in an angry squabble or conflict. The hope of this series is to help us get better at keeping our head and guarding our heart when things get nasty. Its seems that one of the areas where things can get nasty real quick is in the area of politics. This Sunday we...

In life, disappointment is inevitable. We don't get to choose what unexpected challenges or frustrations come our way. The only choice we will always have available to us is how we respond to what comes our way. We would love for you to join us this Sunday for an inspiring message about how to handle the difficult people and circumstances that we run into from time to time.

Saying yes to God’s call on our life is an invitation to, well…care. To not just sit back and be a bystander, but to actually give a “you know what” about the world around us and the people in it. The thing about caring is that it can be really exhausting. In the face of all the bad news it can be challenging to not just throw in the towel and give up. We will wrap up our time in this series with...

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